drummernut74

So my question is ... was this the fallback plan if we didn't get either Crosby or Hendrickson ... or were we going for both and loading for bear?

What's Big Ted Washington up to these days lol

Still employed by the Browns

I was listening to GR yesterday and they referenced a Bills player who was on the team at the time who is coming out of the woodwork because it doesn't matter now ... and he said that the D alignment during 13 seconds .... WASN'T EVEN SOMETHING THEY PRACTICED THAT WEEK .....

Nick Sirianni won the SB in year 3 ... anything else you want to talk about?

Wade Phillips was the absolute master of this. Always just took what he had and turned it into a top tier Defense in very short order. I believe he took the Texans D from worst to 1st in 1 year if I'm not mistaken. He had no true real system

Bottom line is we have somewhat of a clusterf**k on our hands .. we as the die hard fans that we are .. have to wait and see what happens, eat what we're going to get served .. and choose to like it or not All good spirited conversations in the meantime lol

Marv Levy would always say it’s not about being a great offensive head coach or a great defensive head coach … it’s just about being a great HEAD coach. Coordinators from both sides of the ball are going to get poached from good teams. That’s life in the NFL Marv was a Special Teams Coach, as was Mike Tomlin and John Harbaugh, both who are SB Champion HCs You can only work with the tools you are given. We didn't have talented receivers that were capable of more explosive or creative things

Bill Belichik wasn't an offensive head coach ... he was a HEAD coach. He had 3 OCs for the majority of the dynasty. Didn't seem to be a problem steamrolling everyone for 20 years Marv Levy would always say it’s not about being a great offensive head coach or a great defensive head coach … it’s just about being a great HEAD coach. Coordinators from both sides of the ball are going to get poached from good teams. That’s life in the NFL Marv was a Special Teams Coach, as was Mike Tomlin and John Harbaugh, both who are SB Champion HCs

Joe Brady has been forced to make chicken salad from chicken feathers for 2+ years now and has done a pretty darn good job of it. He had JaMarr Chase and Justin Jefferson at LSU...it's not like he doesn't know what a good receiver is. A new HC isn't going suddenly help upgrade the position. That's the GMs job, however now, we are not under control of the McD blueprint and shopping list Part in parcel of this was Terry's goofy power structure where both people reported to him. Remember, McD came first and then BB. This is why the McD had to go and the front office was restructured and streamlined

If the Bills had any semblance of good receivers, this wouldn't be a conversation. Beane unfortunately was forced to "rob Peter to pay Paul". Only so many resources to play with, and with the Defense being the achilles heel ... they had to invest on that side of the ball AGAIN ... only to have it falter in the biggest moments AGAIN It's an organizational philisophical issue. McD had the most power, Terry enabled it, and Beane's job was to buy the groceries. But when you commit too long to something that is flawed, there is only so many ingredients available that have a chance to fit. In McDs world, everything had to fit into a neat box, or it didn't work. It was HIS defense or BUST. And it just continued to bust

Yes ... but ask yourself why we keep ending up in those situations ... How much water can one person continue to be expected to carry ALL the time

Because we already have the #1 rushing attack in the league, score 30 points per game, and just need a little bit better at receiver. We don't need to uproot the whole system on that side of the ball to score a few more points. We need a more reliable and more flexible defense. I was saying it all year ... "Complementary Football" was the code word for the year to cover up the deficiencies in McD's antiquated defensive philosophy, that he was obsessed with. It was more important to him to win with HIS defense, then to build and play defense to WIN. It wasn't the offense that let us down in the biggest moments, it was the defense and it's outdated philosophy. We couldn't get over the hump, because McD couldn't get past himself, and his Ego. His whole coaching philosophy was married to his beloved defense, which always caved in the playoffs

In the aftermath of the McD firing … I find it laughable that one of the sentiments is that we need an offensive minded HC to pair with JA17. Does anyone not realize that last season we scored more points than anyone in the league, with crap receivers, in the “every body eats” year… and this year we were once again one of the highest scoring teams in the league … who just put up 30 points per game, on the road, against excellent defenses, in the playoffs, with crap receivers …. And the same OC both years?!?!?! We need an emotionally cold CEO Head Coach, whose Defenses will not constantly wilt at the wrong time in the playoffs … that Josh can feel comfortable with and trust and not have to constantly feel he needs to play the perfect game out of his ass to win I don't understand this fascination with Klint Kubiak, or some other "up and coming offensive genius"

I have been saying this about McD forever now, and I'm thrilled someone actually started this post. Yes the wrestler in him is a great strength, but it's also his greatest weakness and what gets us into trouble as a team. His ego is tied to it ,,, and subconsciously, he ALWAYS has to have something to wrestle with, and even when things should be easy for us, he creates problems so that there is something for him to wrestle with. It's why it's said that the only team that can beat us is ourselves .. which have done often in the worst and untimely moments. He just can't control himself at times. It's also why we can never deviate from the stubbornest of beliefs in this mystical thing called "The Process" and why nimble creative coaches with good QBs always run circles around us. Everything from the systems we use, to who we draft as a result, and Terry's continued commitment to this, is why we are COMPETITIVE (as promised when he was hired) ... but can't get over the hump McD needs to let go and adopt a more adjustable adaptable approach, especially in the biggest moments ... and it's ultimately why we can never get the #1 seed ... we always lose the wrong games at the wrong times